> I found the bug, it was me.
>
> After all I somehow missed to actually provide the MPI_Info argument to the spawn call.
> Instead I provided MPI_INFO_NULL.
>
> My apologies for this mistake.
>
> Thank you for your efforts.
> Sebastian
>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Sebastian Rinke wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>>>> I'm using OMPI 1.6.4 in a Torque-like environment.
>>>> However, since there are modifications in Torque that prevent OMPI from spawning processes the way it does with MPI_COMM_SPAWN,
>>>
>>> That hasn't been true in the past - did you folks locally modify Torque to prevent it?
>>
>> Plain Torque still supports the TM-based spawning as before.
>> The Problem is that the RM on the system I'm using is based on Torque with modifications.
>>
>>>> I want to circumvent Torque and use plain ssh only.
>>>>
>>>> So, I configured --without-tm and can successfully run mpiexec with -hostfile.
>>>>
>>>> Now I want to MPI_COMM_SPAWN using the hostfile info argument.
>>>>
>>>> I start with
>>>>
>>>> $ mpiexec -np 1 -hostfile hostfile_all ./spawn_parent
>>>>
>>>> where hostfile_all is a superset of hostfile_spawn which is provided in the info argument to MPI_COMM_SPAWN.
>>>>
>>>> The message I get is:
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> All nodes which are allocated for this job are already filled.
>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> I'll take a look in the morning when my cluster comes back up - sounds like we have a bug. However, note that there are no current plans for a 1.6.5 release, so I don't know how long it will be before any fix shows up.
>>>
>>> Meantime, I'll check the 1.7 series to ensure it works correctly there as well.
>>
>> When it works with 1.7 this would already be fine for me.
>>
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